Reimagining World Wide Education Research

2018 WERA World Congress: Cape Town 3 August – 5 August 2018 The Westin Grand, Cape Town, South Africa Reimagining World wide Education Research #wera2018 | www.wera2018.co.za | [email protected] TABLE THANK OF YOU TO OUR MAIN CONTENTS SPONSORS About WERA 4 Regional Partners 4 Welcome Letters 5 Council Roster 6 Keynote Speakers 7 Opening Plenary 10 Closing Plenary 10 Pre Conference Workshops 11 Supporting the Local Community 13 Poster Awards 14 Conference Programme Overview 14 Session 1 15 Session 2 35 Session 3 54 Important information 66 The Westin 66 Wifi Connecton 67 Layout of the Venue 68 Page 2 Page 3 welcOME Dear WERA Congress Attendees, On behalf of the World Education Research Association (WERA), we are pleased to welcome you to the 2018 WERA World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. The theme of the Congress, “Reimagining Worldwide Education Research,” is particularly fitting at a time when reimagining is so essential across the global North and South. With the WERA Secretariat located in South Africa, convening this Congress in Cape Town was the perfect location to foster a worldwide conversation and connect education research scholars and students. We want to extend a special thanks to Programme Co-Chair and WERA Secretary General Liesel Ebersöhn for embracing the vision of a Congress and investing in its success. We also want to The World Education Research Association (WERA) is an association of major national, regional, and international specialty thank the staff of the WERA Secretariat and the local organizers of the World Congress for their dedication and hard work in bringing research associations dedicated to advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA undertakes initiatives this meeting to fruition. The substance and collegiality of the Congress flow from the energy and engagement of our South Africa that are global in nature and thus transcend what any one association can accomplish in its own country, region, or area of “family.” On behalf of WERA, we are deeply appreciative. specialization. Member associations work together to address such issues as: We also thank the keynote speakers for their commitment and all contributors for their carefully prepared submissions and presentations. And last but not least we thank the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the National Sun Yat-sen z building capacity and interest in education research, University. Taiwan, and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement for their generous support of z advancing education research policies and practices, and the Congress. z promoting the use and application of education research around the world. WERA was established in 2009 as an international association of major national, regional, and specialty education research associations dedicated to sharing scholarship, developing networks, mutually supporting capacity building, and promoting the use and application of education research around the world. WERA aims to undertake initiatives that are global in nature and WERA MISSION AND GOALS thus transcend what any one association can accomplish in its own country, region, or area of specialization. A key goal of WERA The World Education Research Association (WERA) is an association of national, regional, and international specialty research is inclusiveness, and we pursue extensive outreach to add to our community of members. WERA also includes individual and associations aimed at advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA was founded on April 18, 2009 in institutional member affiliates. San Diego, California, when representatives of the member associations officially approved its establishment in accordance This Congress is one of the many fruits of WERA programming. Each year, WERA holds a “focal meeting” that is integral to the with the mission and articles set forth in its proposed constitution. conference of a member associations. In 2018, we are holding this special Congress both to expand our emphasis on papers, symposia, and poster sessions of worldwide relevance and also to encourage you to help shape the direction of future WERA programs, initiatives, and events. We look forward to your participation and also to your joining with us at informal moments and meetings to contribute to the next phases of world education research. WERA’s commitment to inclusivity and to capacity building for the next generations leads us REGIONAL PARTNERS to see “reimagining” as a collective and collaborative process. We thank you for attending. We hope that this conference opens new horizons for you and the field of education research in the University of Limpopo University of Pretoria years ahead. Felice J. Levine WERA Past President - Programme Co-Chair | Ingrid Gogolin WERA President University of Northern Cape National University of Lesotho University of the Witwatersrand University of Swaziland Dear WERA Congress Attendees, University of Johannesburg University of Fort Hare The World Education Research Association has become synonymous with a key message of globally linked capacity to the benefit Nelson Mandela University University of South Africa of education. This connectedness to enable knowledge that matters for education world-wide has a decidedly interpersonal interface. And nowhere is such social connectedness as evident as during annual WERA Focal meetings, WERA symposia at University of the Free State Cape Peninsula University of Technology association meetings, and now: at the 2018 WERA World Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. In fact, in the Secretariat and in communique to the WERA community, we often refer to the ‘WERA family’. WERA is a kinship of University of KwaZulu Natal Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further interlinked scholars in education worldwide. This image resonates with an Ubuntu philosophy that reimagines education from a Education and Training position of empathy and hope, as well as agency for equality in Southern Africa. University of Venda As Secretariat it was a privilege to connect with so many of you internationally and regionally in virtual ways in order to let this congress manifest in a southern tip of the Global South space. We are particularly appreciative of the munificence of the Programme Co-Chair and Immediate Past President Felice J. Levine in sharing capacity and connecting the dots to give life to an imagined world congress. Our Secretariat would be amiss if we did not acknowledge the exceptional work of our local organizer partners, as well as the meaningful participation of 19 Regional Committee members from 14 leading Southern African universities. It is our hope as Secretariat that the WERA World Congress will serve as platform to pool our joint world-wide knowledge and cultures on education knowledge. May this Congress extend the ethos of the WERA family to include many more familiar faces and insights regarding that which is the WERA footprint. Liesel Ebersöhn WERA Secretary General Programme Co-Chair Page 4 Page 5 COUNCIL OF THE WORLD WERA 2018 WORLD CONGRESS EDUCATION RESEARCH ASSOCIATION KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (WERA) Prof Crain Soudien Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council South Africa OFFICERS: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FRI 3 AUG | 18:30 | BALLROOM EAST Crain Soudien is the Chief Executive Officer of the Human Sciences Research Council and Ingrid Gogolin, President: Mustafa Yunus Eryaman, President-Elect: formerly a Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Cape Town where he remains an [email protected] [email protected] emeritus professor in Education and African Studies. His publications in the areas of social Felice J. Levine, Immediate Past President: Yuto Kitamura, Appointed Liaison: difference, culture, education policy, comparative education, educational change, public [email protected] [email protected] history and popular culture include three books, four edited collections and over 190 articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters, including a 2017 publication entitled “Nelson Mandela: Joanna Madalińska-Michalak, Vice President: Liesel Ebersöhn, Secretary-General: Comparative Perspectives of his Significance for Education”. [email protected] [email protected] He is also the co-editor of three books on District Six, Cape Town, a jointly edited book on comparative education and the author of The Making of Youth Identity in Contemporary South Africa: Race, Culture and Schooling, the author of Realising the Dream: Unlearning the Logic of Race in the South African School, and the co-author of REPRESENTATIVES OF ASSOCIATION MEMBERS: Inclusion and Exclusion in South Africa and Indian Schools. He was educated at the University of Cape Town and UNISA, South Africa and holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Brazilian Black Researchers Association Korean Educational Research Association (KERA) Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores Negros (ABPN) Mimi Bong, Representative: [email protected] He is involved in a number of local, national and international social and cultural organisations and is the Chairperson of the Anna Canavarro Benite, President: [email protected] Independent Examinations Board, the former Chairperson of the District Six Museum Foundation, a former President of the World Malaysian Association for Education (MAE) Council of Comparative Education Societies and had been the chair of the Ministerial Committee on Transformation in Higher American Educational Research

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